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Hoe.

No. 78,561. Patented June 2, 1868.

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IMPROVEMENT IN HORS.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it'known that I, ISAAC N. WOOD, of Full River, in the county of Bristol, und State of Massachusetts, have invented o new and useful olf-improved Hoe or implement for digging, weeding, orstirring lend; und I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a side elevation,

Figure 2 a. front e'nd View, and

Figure 3 n longitudinal section of it.

In such drawings, A denotes the blade, und B the handle of the hoe.

The blnde is u short tube, fr, terminating in or provided at its bottom with nn angular front or nose, and at top with a. shank, c, having un eye, d, to embruce'the end of the handle, the whole being shaped in manner ns represented in the accompanying drawings.

The inner edges of the tube nndnose are sharpened, so as to enable thev implement when in use to easily enter the ground.

It is to be used in a, manner very similar to that in which a. common he provided with a. solid plete is operated.l l v The advantage of my improved hoe over the plate-blade hoeis that mine will cut up the weeds' und stir the ground without removing the earth or dragging it into. ridges, und besides, my hoe, by being open in its blade, can be worked much easier and with less friction then the common hoe.

I claim the improved hoe as mode with the short, open, tubular blade, combined or provided with errungelur nose, arranged with respect to such blade and its shank, substantially as specified. I

ISAAC N. WOOD.

Witnesses:

DAVID SMITH, RONALD CAMERON. 

